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Lysenko's malign influence extended beyond genetics into other phases of Soviet agriculture. He was largely responsible for a costly and disastrous experiment with forest-belt planting. His notions about crop rotation cost the country in one season as much grain as would have been produced by 6,000,000 acres. He refused to introduce hybrid corn, the most spectacular practical achievement of Western plant genetics. The blight of Lysenkoism even touched far-distant sciences, including chemistry and physics, where Marxist dogmatists denounced useful and well-proved principles as tainted with Western error...
...home, enforced submissiveness and isolation, learning difficulties and organic disorders-especially of the central nervous system." True enough, some of these causes involve the home, but it takes a combination of several, said Dr. Bender, to push "a particular child along the road to delinquency." Even under such a malign constellation, some other factor is still needed to turn a child into a delinquent, Dr. Bender emphasized. Putting psychiatric jargon aside, she called this simply "happenstance...
Acute starvation produces similar susceptibility in humans. So does diabetes. But most victims of diseases contracted under these malign spells recover their resistance to infection when their diet or metabolism is corrected. It may be that even among well-fed and generally healthy individuals, Dr. Dubos suggests, the ability to ward off attack by infectious agents will vary greatly from day to day. If so, it may explain why a nurse or attendant in a leprosarium may be exposed to infection for years and then, mysteriously, fall victim to the disease. As Dubos puts it: "Contact and receptivity...
...dangers from the gigantic Communist source of evil in the world are unending," said Hoover. "Amid these malign forces, our haunting anxiety and our paramount necessity is the defense of our country...
...palace approval, there had been none; the Lord Chamberlain, as official censor, simply had found the revue fit for public view without considering its political content. As for South Africa's protests, the revue's producer said Don't Malign Malan would definitely stay on the program. Stops the show almost every night, he added...